What is a medium?

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What is a medium?

A MEDIUM provides evidence of survival of the human personality beyond the physical state we call death. S/he is the link between the two worlds communicating with people who have died through mind-to-mind contact.

Mediumship is the ability to communicate with people you know in the afterlife. Its objective is to prove survival of the human personality after death and to help the bereaved come to terms with their loss. Mediumistic sittings are not for fortune telling but are experimental sessions to provide evidence of survival. Any attempt to communicate with Spirit is, by its very nature, purely experimental and therefore, results can never be guaranteed.

Mediumship takes two forms:

Physical Mediumship: Physical phenomena is of such a nature that it is usually demonstrated only at private seances. Any person sitting with the medium can hear or see what is happening. By means of raps, audible voices or materialised figures the spirit people convey intimate information about themselves, their recollection of their earthly lives and details of their lives in the spirit world.

Mental Mediumship: Mental phenomena is demonstrated through the mind of a medium. Mediums identify three forms of mental mediumship:

1. CLARVOYANCE the medium sees the spirit
2. CLAIRAUDIENCE the medium hears the spirit
3. CLAIRSENTIENCE the medium senses the presence and the thoughts of the spirit.

Example demonstration of mediumship with Craig Hamilton-Parker

How Mental Mediumship Works

Mental phenomena is the type most often demonstrated in public. The medium can firstly produce enough information to satisfy the enquirer that their family member, friend or loved one still survives and can give an accurate physical description of themselves, their work, what illness they died of etc.

Once the identity of the spirit person is apparent and accepted, further evidence can be given about shared and past memories to current events in the sitter's life. Further information about hobbies and idiosyncrasies can establish the personality of the communicator. A medium must always act in a responsible and dignified manner and should adhere to a code of conduct. The medium should also be aware of legal, moral and ethical standards in this important work. Mediums who work within the Spiritualist religion are sometimes called SPIRITUALIST MEDIUMS.

Trance mediumship is a form of mental mediumship in which the medium is overshadowed by the spirit communicator and allowed to speak directly through the medium.

Psychic insight:

Seership: The spirit world cannot predict the future as this is subject to your own free will. However, because the spirit people are unburdened by physical minds and material influences, they can sometimes take a much broader and long-sighted view of the likely outcome of our actions. Then, of course, they will try to make us aware of these likely situations before they arise. Also psychics may be able to give guidance by using Extrasensory Perception (ESP). For example, Jane and I are aware of the aura, which is a spiritual light around the body,and be able to intuitively sense what's going on in the sitter's life. Also we are telepathic and may gain guidance for the future through precognition. For this reason people like us may call ourselves PSYCHIC MEDIUMS because we display the gifts of mediumship and seership.

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